Hey Sudoers,
We have one week left in the campaign and only need another $12,855! Thanks
to the generosity of our community, we’ve received $40,000 in major
donations plus $27,145 in grassroots funding through our crowdfunding
campaign page. That means, together, we’ve raised $67,145--approaching our
overall goal of $80,000.
We depend on you to make this happen:
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Donate, even a small amount! Every dollar counts:
https://omnicommons.org/donate
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Social Media! Get on Facebook, twitter, etc. and let people know that
it's the last week and that they should contribute. Tagging specific people
is a really good way to get people's attention.
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If you want to canvas in-person this week, contact Chris at 510-692-1349
to coordinate (3:30pm-7:30pm Thu-Fri, and all day Sat-Sun).
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Reach out to any bloggers, journalists, media outlets of any sort that
you know and see if they’d be interested in covering the close of our
campaign or if they’d be willing to share our donation link
omnicommons.org/donate on social media, we’re:
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https://twitter.com/omnicommons
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https://www.facebook.com/omnicommons
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Make personal phone calls, or write personal notes to people close to
you who would be willing to contribute!
- Copy and paste the following email message and send to others:
Subject: Only One Week Left to Contribute--Open the Omni Commons!
Howdy,
There’s only one week left to contribute to our crowdfunding campaign, and
we’re really close to reaching our goal. Please donate now, and share this
message as far as you possibly can!
https://omnicommons.org/donate <http://omnicommons.org/donate>
We only need another $12,855! Thanks to the generosity of our community,
we’ve received $40,000 in major donations plus $27,145 in grassroots
funding through our crowdfunding campaign page. That means, together, we’ve
raised $67,145--approaching our overall goal of $80,000.
What does it mean to forge a commons?
Everywhere on the planet, those spaces, places, and resources that we share
and hold in common are being targeted and exploited for personal gain and
corporate profit. It is up to all of us to preserve whatever commons we
still have, and to forge new ones whenever possible.
The Omni Commons has tremendous potential to become a critical community
space. In order to ensure our doors can open, and remain open, we need
your help today.
https://omnicommons.org/donate <http://omnicommons.org/donate>
Love and Solidarity,
The Omni Commons Fundraising Working Group
hi all,
our indiegogo campaign
<https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland>
is up to $15k! an anonymous donor agreed to match donations for a week -
but today's the last day! so if you haven't donated yet, your donation
today will get doubled!
love,
marina
ps - signal boost this! free doubling of money! huge deal!
hi everyone,
just a reminder that you and all your friends are invited to the women's
variety show taking place at sudo (in the ballroom, not inside sudo itself)
tomorrow night!
it's free and starts at 7:30PM.
more details here: https://sudoroom.org/upcoming-event-womens-variety-show/
i hope to see you all!
marina
Dear Sudo Room supporter,
As many of you know, Sudo Room recently moved to a new home in the Omni
Commons. We've been gaining new members every week, and are excited to have
the space and opportunity to work on all kinds of new projects and build
anything we can imagine. Our doors are open to members and guests, but we
have a lot of work left to do until we're able to officially open our doors
to the public!
Occupy Oakland recognized the need for common public space collectively
stewarded for the benefit of the community. The Omni is one of the
manifestations of this dream now emerging. To make sure it can happen, we,
the Omni collectives, have launched an *IndieGoGo campaign*
<https://omnicommons.org/donate>. In order to reach our ultimate goal of
buying the Omni building as a community land trust, and making it
sustainable, we have to take this first step of raising enough money to
make the building accessible, bring it up to fire codes, equip it with a
legal commercial kitchen, and implement other upgrades needed to officially
open to the public. More details are available on the *IndieGogo page*
<https://omnicommons.org/donate>.
Please share far and wide!
We are asking you to contribute any way you can. There are 3 main ways to
support.
*1. Come* *visit the Omni and see how you might want to get involved.* You
should see the amazing building and meet the people. Or you can just hang
out :-)
Here's a link to our video-tour: https://youtu.be/9Zccga90hcY
Our community is composed of an ever-growing ensemble of collectives and
projects:
* Food Not Bombs: *Reclaiming food to ensure all are fed - since the 19**8*
*0s,* <http://ebfnb.org>
* Counter Culture Labs: *A biotech laboratory that makes science accessible
outside of academia* <http://counterculturelabs.org>,
* *The Bay Area Public School* <http://bayareapublicschool.org>: A
horizontally-organized all-volunteer university,
* Omni Media Project: Providing education and resources for making
independent media to those without access,
* Material Print Machine: A community print shop for self-publishing,
* La Commune: A worker-owned cafe and bookstore that serves as the entrance
to Omni Commons, currently crowdfunding`to open in full
<https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/la-commune-cafe-and-bookstore--2/x/90943…>
!
* Optik Allusions <https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Optik_Allusions>: A radical
film collective dedicated to social change, and directors of our one-shot
walkthrough video tour <http://omnicommons.org/donate>,
* Our commons: We're renting out <https://omnicommons.org/occupy> our large
ballroom, stage, dance studio and small rooms on a sliding-scale basis,
encouraging aligned groups and projects to join us in creating a model for
equitably sharing space and resources.
*2. Spread the word about the Omni on social media and in person.*
Share the *Campaign page* <https://omnicommons.org/donate> on Facebook.
Retweet the following:
- @omnicommons is creating a people-powered commons in Oakland,
California.
Update your email signature for a month to:
- "Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California:
omnicommons.org/donate"
*3. **Donate* <https://omnicommons.org/donate>* whatever you can afford.
Every little bit counts!*
Help crowdfund the revolution at omnicommons.org/donate
You can donate to Sudo Room directly as well *here*
<https://gratipay.com/sudoroom>. Thank you for making Omni Commons and Sudo
Room real.
If you have more ways you’d like to help, please let us know!
Love and solidarity,
Sudo Room
Hi everyone,
Come join Sudo Room <http://sudoroom.org> for a *Women’s Variety Show* from
*7:30-10PM* on *Sat. Dec 6th*!
Women from our community (and beyond – friends coming from LA to perform!)
will be giving a number of performances ranging from talks, to electronic
music, to dance. Performers include people who do or have identified with
womanhood. Performances include: SVG animation, a talk about gentrification
in Oakland, singing of original compositions, a discussion about sexism, a
talk about camping cooking, and lots more!
Admission is free and open to anyone. We’ll be starting promptly at
7:30PM [image:
:D]
Event details & RSVP is here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/467155636758985/
I've attached the flyer in case anyone would like to pass it along :)
- Marina
-----Original Message-----
From: "Mike Sandmel" <mike(a)neweconomy.net>
Sent: 10/9/2014 3:48 PM
To: "ecoeconomist11(a)gmail.com" <ecoeconomist11(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Register for the New Economy Week online panel series
Dear Troy --
There's a lot going on next week! Our friends and allies have planned over 80 events for New Economy Week 2014 and we hope you’ll take a look at the map and attend an event in your area.
No matter where you live, there will be a way for you to join the conversation.
>From Tuesday to Friday next week, the New Economy Coalition will be hosting a panel discussion each day featuring community leaders from across the US and Canada. Check out the line-up below!
Register today to access all of next week's panels.
See you next week,
Mike Sandmel
Manager of Coalition Engagement, New Economy Coalition
There Are Many Alternatives: System Change Not Climate Change
Tuesday, October 14 @ 3-4pm EST
Climate change is both an existential threat to the future of humanity and a present-day struggle for many communities on the frontlines of extractive industry. It is also perhaps the greatest opportunity we've had to build a broad-based movement for economic system change. This panel will explore how the struggle for climate justice can be a lens for imagining and building the new economy we need.
Scaling Power for a Just Transition: Strategies to Catalyze the New Economy
Wednesday, October 15 @ 4-5pm EST
Our ideas for an alternative economy -- no matter how beautiful, logical, or even necessary they are -- aren’t going anywhere without social movement power. The good news is that this movement is emerging. While we have a lot of work ahead of us, there is an increasing desire to build together across traditional silos. Our projects, policies and business models are resonating with people and even beginning to displace extractive industry. This panel will explore how we can connect and learn from successful experiments, pilot projects, and campaigns to build broad-based power and effect deep transformation at scale.
Panelists:
Hilary Abel, Project Equity
Rebecca Kemble, US Federation of Woker Co-ops / Union Cab of Madison
James Mumm, National People’s Action
Vanessa Timmer, One Earth
Honoring our Histories, Fighting for our Future: Learning From Communities on the Frontlines of a Just Transition
Thursday, October 16 @ 3-4pm EST
Far too often, powerful interests divide communities by presenting a false choice between good jobs and a healthy environment. A fundamental principle of the new economy is the value of cultivating abundance -- the idea that there is enough and that we can, and must, have living wages and a liveable planet. And so we must ask ourselves: "How do we transition to a renewable economy without leaving the workers, young people, and communities most impacted by extractive industries behind?
Panelists:
Deirdre Smith, 350
Kwabena Nkromo, Atlanta Food & Farm LLC
Ivy Brashear, Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED)
Displacing Injustice, Embracing Community: Lessons from Local and Regional New Economy Organizing
Friday, October 17 @ 3-4pm EST
>From Richmond, CA to Jackson, MI, people are organizing to build local power and are seeing major victories that could point the way forward to a new economy. This panel raises the question: "How can we support neighborhoods, cities, towns, and regions as the fertile ground for the kind of economy we need?”
Panelists:
Aaron Tanaka, Center For Economic Democracy / NEC Board
Stacy Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Marnie Thompson, Fund for Democratic Communities
In addition to these panels, a number of NEC coalition members are also hosting online events for New Economy Week:
Transition US Teleseminar: "Re-thinking Our Monetary System: Bay Bucks and the New Economy"
Tuesday, October 14, 2PM to 3:15PM EST
Slow Money State of the Sector Report: A conversation with Woody Tasch, founder and chairman of Slow Money
Wednesday, October 15, 1PM to 2PM EST
Community Resilience 101: How Your Community Can Thrive in Challenging Times by JP New Economy Transition
Thursday, October 16, 12PM-1PM EST
Count Care In: Foundations of Prosperity in a New Economy by the Caring Economics Campaign
Thursday, October 16, 4PM to 5PM EST
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Gerald Smith" <gsmith1917(a)gmail.com>
Sent: 10/9/2014 9:34 PM
To: "ecoeconomist11(a)gmail.com" <ecoeconomist11(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: Come to Inside Urban Shield Forum - Friday 10/10/14
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gerald Smith <gsmith1917(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:15 PM
Subject: Come to Inside Urban Shield Forum - Friday 10/10/14
To: Gerald Smith <gsmith1917(a)gmail.com>
Urban Shield Background.
The eighth annual Urban Shield, a special weapons and tactics exposition showcasing the
latest in law enforcement equipment, took place at the Marriott in downtown Oakland on
September 4-8, 2014. The annual event brings together law enforcement agencies from around
the world - including Israel, Bahrain, Qatar, Brazil, Guam, South Korea and Singapore, in
addition to police forces from around the U.S. They share militarized intimidation tactics, training exercises and a military hardware sale convention for agencies seeking weapons to suppress
their local populations with S.W.A.T. Teams, neighborhood lock-downs and Martial Law.
Urban Shield is hosted by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, but was organized by the for
profit corporation known as Cytel Group Inc. which was founded by former assistant sheriff of
Alameda County, James Lester Baker. Mr. Baker founded the company as a way to promote
the anti-terrorism Urban Shield program around the world. The Cytel Group also organizes
Urban Shield conferences in Austin, Texas, Boston, New Orleans and abroad.
For years local activists and community members have vehemently opposed an event of this
kind taking place in a city with such a strong history of police repression, violence and murder.
In 2011, Urban Shield took place just days before the tear-gassing, beatings and shootings of
Occupiers that took place on October 25th. In 2013, an all-day speakout and demonstration was
held at the Marriott. This year, five hundred people blocked Broadway outside the Marriot for
hours in protest of the events inside. With political, economic and people pressure being thus
brought to bear, and the specter of Ferguson looming, the Mayor of Oakland announced that
Urban Shield would not be held in Oakland in 2015.
Guest Speakers.
Several members of the local community took bold steps to get inside Urban Shield as
volunteers, journalists and analysts to be able to testify to the public on all they observed.
Shane Bauer was kidnapped by Iranian forces while hiking near the Iraq/Iran border. Along
with Sarah Shourd and Josh Battel, he was held in solitary confinement in Iran for months.
When released he turned his attention to investigative reporting, concentrating on California’s
solitary confinement prison system and, most recently, Urban Shield.
Julia Carrie Wong is a freelance investigative reporter who has written pieces for Vice, Al
Jazeera, Salon, The Nation, In These Times and 48 Hills. Her recent piece on Urban Shield in
Vice, Militarized Cops Pretend to Fight Terrorists in Oakland, was highly acclaimed.
Joshua Smith is an Oakland activist, and an investigator for the Oakland Privacy Working
Group. His work for OPWG helped curtail the Domain Awareness Center, Oakland’s own
version of an NSA spy center. Josh was able to attend some of the Urban Shield seminars.
Susan Harman is an Oakland activist, member of Code Pink, the Oakland Privacy Working
Group and Strike Debt Bay Area. She “volunteered” for one of Urban Shield’s training exercises.
Attend Inside Urban Shield to hear reports by these speakers “from the inside,” ask questions
and help build community opposition to future events not only happening in Oakland but all over
the country.
Come one, come all!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Noemie Serfaty <noemieserfaty(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 1:01 PM
Subject: [sudo-discuss] THIS SUNDAY!!! Omni fundraising video shoot: we
need all of you!!!
To: bayareapublicschool-organizing(a)googlegroups.com, "
omnilogistics(a)lists.riseup.net" <omnilogistics(a)lists.riseup.net>,
discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org, sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
>
Dear Omni members
Tomorrow, Sunday the 5th is the long awaited SHOOT of the Omni fundraising
video!!!
The OptikAllusions film collective has been working hard to make it happen,
and it looks like it will be an awesome and fun day at the Omni!
WE NEED ALL OF YOU!!
In order for the Omni to look like a place buzzing with life and
potentialities, we need as many people as possible to show up and help!
Production meeting will be at 11:45! We need everyone to be there so Liz
can assign everyone to a spot and a role, explain the course of things, how
to prepare, etc!
We will then shoot from 12:30 to 4pm
Help make the Omni look like a wonderful, crazy, wacky, fun, creative and
crucial social project!
Make your collective look awesome!
Help prepare the space!
If you want to be a baps student, dress nerdy! If you want to be a yoga
student, dress accordingly! if you want to look like your busy drilling
stuff, wear your overalls! If you want to juggle or play the banjo, bring
your props!
Look videogenic!
Love and solidarity
Noemie and the OptikAllusions Film Collective
--
Noémie Serfaty
108 rue du Faubourg du Temple
75011 Paris
Tel: 06 27 76 88 84
Tel: 01 71 50 51 82
noemieserfaty(a)gmail.com
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The price of freedom is awareness and action."
-----Original Message-----
From: "max cadji max(a)phatbeetsproduce.org [EBSocForum]" <EBSocForum(a)yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 9/9/2014 2:04 PM
Subject: [EBSocForum] : " Exploring Greenwashing and Gentrification fromOakland to Palestine"(Workshop Oakland)
Come check out the Food N’ Justice Workshop series. Always free at the Saturday Feel the Beet! Farmers Market North Oakland Farmers’ Market, 11-1pm. Our workshop series is located at:
Grace Ave @Lowell St. (Next to Destiny Arts at 970 Grace Ave, Oakland 94608)
www.phatbeetsproduce.org/events
September 13, 2014
"Greenwashing and Gentrification from Oakland to Palestine"
Description:
Join Phat Beets Produce for this world cafe-style workshop that explores how tree plantings in Oakland, Detroit, and Occupied Palestine function to displace low-income people of color and marginalized groups from their neighborhoods and land for the purposes of redevelopment and profit-making. We will explore the commonalities of the techniques and methods used by WOGI (West OaklandGreening Initiative), Hantz Farms in Detroit (largest proposed urban tree farm in the US), and the Jewish National Fund's "Plant a Tree in Israel" campaign to understand how non-profit organizations, private companies and local governments use greenwashing as a tool for displacement and gentrification.
More details
September 20, 2014
Make it Fresh: Creative Storytelling for the Urban Environment
Description: Make it Fresh: Creative Storytelling for the Urban Environment
with Josh Healey
If politics is the art of what’s possible, let’s use art to expand those possibilities. Join this interactive arts and activism workshop as we write and share new poems and songs, memories and manifestos — and discover how to use your own story to change the larger narrative towards justice and ecology.
Josh Healey is an award-winning writer, performer, and creative activist. A regular performer on NPR's Snap Judgment, Healey has performed and led workshops at UC-Berkeley, Harvard, and over 200 schools and community organizations across the country. He is currently the Culture Shift Fellow with Movement Generation. Find out more at joshhealey.org.
More details
September 20, 2014
BikeMobile- FREE BIKE REPAIR!
Description: "BikeMobile will bring FREE BIKE REPAIRS at Phat Beets Produce Saturday, Sept 20th from 9:30am-1:30pm. Bring your bike. We guarantee to serve the first 20 people that sign up, after that we will fix as many bikes as we have time for. We can fix flat tires, adjust brakes and gears, and even replace broken or worn out parts like chains, grips, and tires. Bike or no bike, it can be educational for all who show up."
More details
September 27th, 2014
Introduction to Community Based Restorative JusticeJoin the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council for a youth friendly 2 hour introduction to community based Restorative Justice. According to Fania Davis of Restorative Justice For Oakland Youth restorative justice is a philosophical framework and worldview, and it is also an approach to justice that emphasizes bringing together all affected by harm to address their needs and obligations and to heal the harm as much as possible. There will also be an overview to the work of the North Oakland Restorative Justice
October 11, 2014
Decolonize Your Diet! Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration
More details
October 25, 2014
making kraut w/youth pickle co
More details
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www.phatbeetsproduce.org
510-250-7957
...connecting small farmers to urban communities
Check out Feel the Beet! Farmers Market
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keawnad90aQ
"...if you leave the crumbs alone and we organize, then we can take the whole loaf"
Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael
--
www.phatbeetsproduce.org
510-250-7957
...connecting small farmers to urban communities
Check out Feel the Beet! Farmers Market
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keawnad90aQ
"...if you leave the crumbs alone and we organize, then we can take the whole loaf"
Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael
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